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Arizona bison hunt 7004

House Rock Wildlife Area only (House Rock Herd) in Unit 12A East. What each bonus point level actually did in Arizona's spring draw — how many applications sat at that level, and how many of them drew a tag. Every figure comes from an Arizona Game and Fish report linked at the foot of this page.

What the 2026 draw did

Arizona authorized 1 hunt permit-tag on hunt 7004 in 2026, of which at most 0 could go to nonresidents. Across first and second choice, 524 applications named it, and 1 drew it through the first two passes. The hunt filled.

Arizona grants no guarantee for holding points. Before each pass the department generates one random number for your application plus one more for every bonus point on it, and uses the lowest. Only the bonus pass — 20 per cent of the permits above, and closed to anyone holding no points — goes out in point order. So the table below is a record of what happened at each level, not a ladder you climb.

The highest bonus point level with an application on this hunt in 2026 was 44.

Arizona's own two reports disagree about this hunt. Summing the permits the Bonus Point Report gives at each level does not reproduce the total its own Draw Report states for the same hunt in 2025 spring. Both published figures are shown — the level rows below come from the Bonus Point Report, the authorized and issued totals above from the Draw Report. We have not resolved the difference in either direction, because the department has not.

By bonus point level

Cycle
Residency
The draw rate is permits drawn divided by applications at that level — a share of the people there, not a share of a quota. Arizona publishes no permits-available figure per point level. "Bonus pass" is the subset of the drawn column issued in the 20 per cent first pass; it is already included, and adding the two together counts those permits twice. Applications are first and second choice only.
CyclePoints1st choice2nd choiceApplicationsDrawnof which bonus passDraw rate
2026 spring0243458000.00%
2026 spring1185371000.00%
2026 spring2161733000.00%
2026 spring3112031000.00%
2026 spring481321000.00%
2026 spring5111324000.00%
2026 spring671926000.00%
2026 spring781018000.00%
2026 spring861319000.00%
2026 spring951621000.00%
2026 spring1091322000.00%
2026 spring1131821000.00%
2026 spring12729000.00%
2026 spring13111122000.00%
2026 spring14448000.00%
2026 spring155813000.00%
2026 spring164812000.00%
2026 spring174711000.00%
2026 spring18437000.00%
2026 spring194610000.00%
2026 spring204711000.00%
2026 spring216410000.00%
2026 spring22336000.00%
2026 spring23134000.00%
2026 spring24044000.00%
2026 spring25055000.00%
2026 spring26044000.00%
2026 spring27011000.00%
2026 spring28022000.00%
2026 spring29213000.00%
2026 spring30011000.00%
2026 spring31011000.00%
2026 spring32011000.00%
2026 spring33123000.00%
2026 spring34112000.00%
2026 spring35112000.00%
2026 spring37112000.00%
2026 spring38123000.00%
2026 spring41011000.00%
2026 spring4401111100.00%
2025 spring015184235000.00%
2025 spring1231111342100.29%
2025 spring214572217100.46%
2025 spring3167108275200.73%
2025 spring410954163000.00%
2025 spring510152153000.00%
2025 spring66748115302.61%
2025 spring76351114000.00%
2025 spring8612788000.00%
2025 spring9382967000.00%
2025 spring10513283000.00%
2025 spring11643195202.11%
2025 spring12412465101.54%
2025 spring13483280202.50%
2025 spring14272552000.00%
2025 spring15351651101.96%
2025 spring16271946000.00%
2025 spring17241539102.56%
2025 spring18161228000.00%
2025 spring19221032000.00%
2025 spring2015520105.00%
2025 spring2112214000.00%
2025 spring2212315000.00%
2025 spring238513000.00%
2025 spring2410818000.00%
2025 spring256391011.11%
2025 spring26448000.00%
2025 spring278210000.00%
2025 spring286511000.00%
2025 spring295510000.00%
2025 spring305271014.29%
2025 spring31415000.00%
2025 spring32325000.00%
2025 spring33606000.00%
2025 spring34505000.00%
2025 spring352241025.00%
2025 spring363251120.00%

A dash in the rate column means nobody applied at that level in that pool, which is absent rather than nought — the draw answered nothing there.

The hunt, cycle by cycle

Season, unit and permit count as the regulations booklet for that cycle prints them. The nonresident figure is a cap, not a share — it is the most that may go to nonresidents, and it does not add to a resident number.
CycleSeasonOpen areasLegal wildlifeAuthorizedNR capIssued
2026 springFeb 6 - Feb 10, 2026House Rock Wildlife Area only (House Rock Herd) in Unit 12A EastDesignated bull bison101
2025 springMar 28 - Jun 5, 202512A (excluding the closed northeast portion of House Rock Wildlife Area - see note), 12B and 13A (Kaibab Plateau Herd)Bull bison only20220

The ground under this hunt number has changed. Arizona has printed more than one open-areas description for hunt 7004 across the cycles above, so comparing its rates across years is comparing hunts that may not cover the same country. The department publishes nothing that settles how much of the change is real, so this page shows each cycle's own description and claims nothing beyond it.

How to read these numbers

The applications column is not the whole field. Arizona draws in three passes and the bonus point report covers the first two — the bonus pass and the first-and-second-choice pass. Hunters who named this hunt as a third, fourth or fifth choice are drawn in a pass the department publishes no point-level breakdown for, so they are not counted above and no total here should be read as everyone who wanted the tag.

A bonus point level is a property of the application, not of a person.Two to four hunters may apply on one application, and Arizona averages their points and rounds to the nearest whole number. So a row at level 6 can hold a group whose members individually hold anything from 4 to 8.

Comparing a rate here with one from another state will mislead you.Utah's and Idaho's rates are permits against a published quota. Arizona's are permits against the applicants at one point level, because that is the only denominator the department gives.

Every source read for this page

  • 2026 Spring Bonus Point Report — 2026-Spring-Bonus-Point-Report.pdf, fetched 2026-09-04
  • 2025 Spring Bonus Point Report — 2025-Spring-Bonus-Point-Report.pdf, fetched 2026-09-04
  • 2026-Spring-Regulations_250908.pdf — the regulations booklet this cycle's species, unit and permit count were read from
  • 2025-Spring-Regulations_2408303.pdf — the regulations booklet this cycle's species, unit and permit count were read from

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